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To: Lyndon Nerenberg VE7TCP <lyndon@orthanc.com>
cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: Automounting CD-ROMs 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 01 Nov 1995 16:28:44 PST."
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Date: Wed, 01 Nov 1995 21:15:49 -0800
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From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>
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> Are any of you familiar with the Irix 'mediad' daemon? It's main
> purpose in life is to handle the CDROM automount scenario being
> discussed. The program refers to a config file listing the devices
> to be scanned, and probes them periodically (I think every five
> seconds) to look for media insertion. If a CDROM appears, and if it
> contains a recognized filesystem, the filesystem is mounted automatically
> at a location also specified in the config file. It locks the device
> to prevent a front-panel ejection of the media. Graceful unmount and
> eject is handled by the 'eject' command.

Well, Terry will probably reject this as architecturally unclean (*grin*)
but it sounds like something that would fill the bill quite nicely
for now..  Any takers? :-)

					Jordan